Ohio State reveals the 12 potential secondary violations

Ohio State has released the list of the 12 potential secondary NCAA violations. They are minor infractions involving six sports, with four related to football. OSU has said that the school is not facing any major NCAA violations.

Here's the list of potential violations:

-Football – The compliance office approved the use of mini basketballs during a football winter conditioning workout.

-Men’s Gymnastics – The practice activities of a gymnastics alum were publicized.

-Institutional – Two baseball prospective student-athletes arrived on campus for official visits before being placed on the request list.

-Institutional – Athletics financial aid agreements were issued to three prospective student-athletes without being signed by the financial aid director.

-Football – A former assistant football coach had an inadvertent contact or “bump” with a prospective student-athlete.

-Field Hockey – A former assistant coach sent an email to a prospective student-athlete believing that she was a 2013 high school graduate.

-Men’s Tennis – A high school football coach and friend of the tennis program’s head coach stopped by the tennis training facility unannounced with an assistant coach and four prospective student-athletes during a dead period.

-Baseball – A prospective student-athlete in grade 12 registered and showed up for an Ohio State camp for participants in grades 9-11 even though he was told he was not eligible to compete at the camp. A t-shirt was given to the individual to defuse the situation when he got upset that he couldn’t compete.

-Baseball – A prospective student-athlete received a complimentary admission to a home baseball game during a dead period.

-Women’s Hockey – A former assistant coach inadvertently sent an email to a 2014 prospective student-athlete when the prospect was mistakenly entered into the recruiting data base by the previous coaching staff as a 2013 graduate.

-Football – The program understood the aunt of a prospective student-athlete was his legal guardian and provided food and lodging expenses to her for the official visit.

-Football – An assistant coach inadvertently posted on the Facebook wall of a 2013 prospective student-athlete, believing at the time he was using the email inbox function of Facebook.